This year was the first year I had Christmas “at home” for a long time – probably over 10 years – without having to go to one set of parents or the other for the holidays. As a result, this was the first year we have had a proper tree, decorations and friends around for [...]
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This is the distillation of several projects I’ve worked on over the last year. I’m only showing one of these as I actually captured my build process on the most recent; being an interactive light display for a demo during my presentation at the Sketching in Hardware conference in Portland, Oregon. This approach isn’t just [...]
In October, 2011 I had the privilege to speak at Web Directions South 2011 – a fantastic conference in Sydney that focuses on web design and development. My presentation was on How the web is going physical and was directly related to my explorations in this space. The presentation was recorded and here is a [...]
I’m a big fan of networked arduinos – especially these EtherTens from Freetronics. When an arduino is networked it opens up a degree of interactivity and awareness that is hard to achieve with serial – not least because your processing can occur somewhere physically distant from your display. This project (pictures and video in action on [...]
As a web oriented person I tend to think web-first whenever I think of mobile. I posted a little while back about how to get a mobile phone to pull it’s orientation data out using some javascript and pass that data to a web server. This has evolved somewhat now and I have a packaged [...]
Smart phones are becoming more sophisticated devices by the month it seems – you can even make phone calls with them I’m told. I’ve played around quite a bit with using bluetooth as a connection method between arduinos and mobile phones and whilst it works fairly well there’s a lot of overhead and your battery [...]
I’ve been playing around a lot with the idea of networked arduino devices that can respond to events by having messages passed to them to do different things (more on this in another post). I noticed I was duplicating a lot of code in set up for things like a server to take the message [...]
This little project started out really as a means of testing my Parallax Ping))) ultrasonic rangefinder that I got from Little Bird last week. As normal however a six year old wanted to understand what I was doing and how it all worked. So, what started as a test turned into something a little more [...]
Creating a glowing globe is pretty easy – my son showed me a really quite poor video on YouTube where a glowing globe was created with just an LED, some wire and a battery frozen in a water balloon. We decided to do it properly (you know with like current-limiting resistors and all that) so [...]